frustration at PC things.
Oh, how I loathe Bigpond Music! Not only do I have to dodge the DRM so I can play any songs I buy on my Mac… I needed 2 separate upgrades to the evil and disgusting Windows Media Player!
Allow me to ellaborate: The Cat Empire put a couple of cool tracks up on Bigpond Music (a cover of Dumb Things and a live version of So Many Nights with the Australian Youth Orchestra). So sitting here on my work computer, I thought I’d download them, then burn them to a CD before re-ripping them on my Mac.
But when I bought them and went to download them… I needed an update to Windows Media Player. *sigh* Fine. Did that. 15 minutes later, after closing everything and having to restart my computer, I log back into Bigpond Music and hope to download my music. Negatory. Now you need to update the security of Windows Media Player 11. Why didn’t that happen when I just installed it 5 minutes ago?! So I did that. And now I’ve just downloaded the files… supposedly. Except it didn’t save them to my desktop like I asked. After 5 minutes of searching Windows, I eventually found them buried in My Documents. Phfft.
Stupid stupid Bigpond Music! At least the songs are awesome.
edit: Well. I thought they were exclusive to Bigpond Music. Or so I was told. I really should’ve checked iTunes first. Oh boy, that’s annoying.
Relax time now. Work is done for the day and I am heading to Mum & Dad’s to start cooking some dinner – Spaghetti Bolognaise. Awesome.
Crap… forgot some garlic bread.